Drawing inspiration from Frederick Wiseman’s classic aesthetic, Nepalese filmmaker Kesang Tseten spends a year observing the community and culture of Himalayan immigrants in and around the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. During the buildup to the 2020 U.S. Census, the inhabitants reveal their motivation to have their presence recorded, encouraged by visits from their political representatives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In carefully captured verite footage, we see a rich portrait of people deeply connected to homeland traditions while adjusting to life in exile.Read More »

The romance between a lonely college student and who seems to be the girl of his dreams is burdened by the sudden arrival of cruel fate.Read More »

Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety store called “The End of the World”. Through this, he meets Huma, a high school student detached from her friends and parents, who finds it is the only place she can find any calm.Read More »

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.Read More »

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The documentary is about the foundation of a new town in the province of Oristano: Mussolinia. Named Arborea after 1945, it was founded as a result of a dike’s construction in the Tirso basin. The film shows the vastness of the dike in details. Forty thousand hectares of Campidano were made suitable to settlement thanks to hydroelectric plants, and the hard work of plowing and sowing the fields. The images show the efforts of building up a city from nothing to the first farms and houses, the road network and the new church. The last frames are in a street market: the display of goods to be sold and the faces of women doing their shopping.Read More »

The young noblewoman Katharina von Holstein loves the poor painter Johannes. After the death of her father, her brutal brother wants to marry Katharina to the wealthy estate neighbour in order to save his own estate from ruin.

After “Immensee” and “Der Puppenspieler”, “Unsterbliche Geliebte” was the third film adaptation of a Theodor Storm story that director Harlan undertook in his capacity as director and screenwriter. It is a free adaptation of Storms novella “Aquis submersus”.Read More »

A detective plays cat-and-mouse with a banker who brutally murdered his own parents.Read More »

Over the years, there have been some truly outstanding European horror films, such as The Ordeal and Tattoo, and Antibodies is successfully continuing the trend. When serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured in a spectacular police strike, a small town cop Michael Martens travels to interrogate him, believing him to be responsible for the brutal murder of a child from his villageRead More »

At the end of World War II, Hungarian Jews are forced on a death march to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen. Only few civilians try to rescue them.Read More »